Debate: Right to possess nuclear weapons

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Do countries have a right to possess nuclear weapons?

Background and context

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Nuclear deterrence: Does it work?

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Pro

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Con

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Equality: Would this policy promote equality among states?

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Pro

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Do nuclear weapons promote peace?

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Pro

• Nuclear deterrence. Nuclear weapons are known to have protected peace, rather than the opposite. In the military, there's a rather famous doctrine called MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). This doctrine theorizes that since nuclear weapons cause enormous damage, would alert the target and that the target would also fire nuclear weapons, no country would be mad enough to attack countries with nuclear weapons. Also, if nuclear weapons were really that dangerous, the world would have been most probably destroyed during the Cold War. It was because of the danger of nuclear weapons that countries couldn't invade nor fire nukes on each other.

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See also

• Debate: Abolition of nuclear weapons
• Debate: Do nuclear weapons promote peace?
• Debate: Should South Korea be allowed to have nuclear weapons?
• Debate: Sovereign right to nuclear energy
• Debate: Israeli nuclear program

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